SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1AMENDMENTS TO SCHEDULES TO THE WILDLIFE ORDER

5

1

Schedule 5 (animals which are protected at all times) is amended as follows.

2

At the appropriate places in alphabetical order insert the following entries—

Common name

Scientific name

Butterfly, Real's Wood White

Leptidea reali

Crayfish, White-Clawed

Austropotamobius pallipes

Damselfly, Irish

Coenagrion lunulatum

Lobster, Spiny

Palinurus elaphus

Mussel, Fan

Atrina fragilis

Seahorse, Short Snouted

Hippocampus hippocampus

Seahorse, Spiny

Hippocampus guttulatus

Skate, Common (in respect of Article 10(1) only and with respect to coastal waters only)

Dipturus batis

Shark, Angel (in respect of Article 10(1) only and with respect to coastal waters only)

Squatina squatina

Shark, Basking

Cetorhinus maximus

3

After the Note at the end of the Schedule insert— “ Note 2. In this Schedule “coastal waters” means the part of the territorial waters adjacent to Northern Ireland which is not more than 6 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of those waters is measured; and “nautical mile” means an international nautical mile of 1,872 metres. ”.